The 2018–19 Campeonato de Portugal was the sixth season of Portuguese football's new third-tier league, since the merging of the
Segunda Divisão
The Segunda Divisão Portuguesa (English: ''Portuguese Second Division'') was a football league situated at the third level of the Portuguese football league system. The division had previously been the second level of the Portuguese pyramid but, w ...
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Terceira Divisão
The Terceira Divisão Portuguesa (in English: ''Portuguese Third Division'') was a football league in Portugal, situated at the fourth level of the Portuguese football league system. The Third Division was initially the third level of the Portugue ...
in 2013, and the fourth season under the current Campeonato de Portugal title. A total of 72 teams competed in this division, which began in August 2018 and ended in June 2019.
Format
The competition format consists of two stages. In the first stage, the 72 clubs will be divided in four series of 18 teams, according to geographic criteria. In each series, teams play against each other in a home-and-away double round-robin system.
In the second stage, the two best-placed teams of each of four Series will dispute a series of playoff matches to promote to the LigaPro. The two finalists will be promoted directly. The five bottom clubs of each series will be relegated.
União da Madeira União is the Portuguese word for Union. It may refer to:
*the Brazilian federal government
*União do Vegetal, a church known for its usage of Hoasca as tea
* Brazilian frigate ''União'' (F45), a general-purpose ''Niterói'' class frigate launc ...
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Sporting B
Sporting Clube de Portugal B is the reserve team of Portuguese football club Sporting CP, a team based in Lisbon. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cann ...
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Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente (; c. 1465c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often ref ...
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Real
Real may refer to:
Currencies
* Brazilian real (R$)
* Central American Republic real
* Mexican real
* Portuguese real
* Spanish real
* Spanish colonial real
Music Albums
* ''Real'' (L'Arc-en-Ciel album) (2000)
* ''Real'' (Bright album) (2010) ...
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2017–18 Campeonato de Portugal
The 2017–18 Campeonato de Portugal is the fifth season of Portuguese football's renovated third-tier league, since the merging of the Segunda Divisão and Terceira Divisão in 2013, and the third season under the current Campeonato de Portuga ...
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Vizela
Vizela () is a municipality in the Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 23,736, in an area of 24.70 km².
The present mayor is Vitor Hugo Salgado, elected as an independent. The municipal holiday is March 19.
History
In A ...
Fafe
Fafe () is a municipality in the northern Portuguese district of Braga. The population in 2021 was 48,502, in an area of approximately (. The city itself had a population of 14,144 in 2001. The present mayor is Antero Barbosa, elected by the Social ...
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Mirandela
Mirandela () is a city and a municipality in northeastern Portugal. The city itself has a population of about 15,000. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 23,850, in an area of 658.96 km². Mirandela is famous for its cuisine, part ...
Pedras Salgadas
Pedras Salgadas () is a small spa town in the district of Vila Real, in Northern Portugal, located approximately 37 km north of the district capital of Vila Real. It is famous for its mineral waters. There are several small hotels in the area ...
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Montalegre
Montalegre () is a municipality in northern Portugal, located in the district of Vila Real, along the border with Spain. The population in 2011 was 10,537, in an area of 805.46 km².
History
Early construction in Montalegre date back 3500 ...
Cinfães
Cinfães () is a village and a municipality in the northern district of Viseu, Portugal. The village proper has about 3,300 inhabitants. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 20,427,Amarante
* Sanjoanense
* Pedras Rubras
* Trofense
* Coimbrões
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União de Leiria
União Desportiva de Leiria, commonly known as União de Leiria (), is a Portuguese football club based in Leiria, central Portugal. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. ...
Águeda
Águeda () is a city and a municipality in Portugal. According to the Portuguese 2011 census, the municipality of Águeda had 47,729 inhabitants, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 14,504 (2001 data), while the remainder is distri ...
Loures
Loures () is a city and a municipality in Portugal which is part of the District and Metropolitan area of Lisbon. It is the fifth most populous municipality in the country, with a total population of 201,632.
History
There was early human sett ...
Casa Pia
:''This article refers to the institution. For the child abuse scandal, see Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal.''
The Casa Pia is a Portuguese institution founded by Maria I, known as ''A Pia'' ("Mary the Pious"), and organized by Police Intendan ...
Ferreiras
Ferreiras is a civil parish in the southern Portuguese municipality of Albufeira. The population in 2011 was 6,406 in an area of 20.13 km².
History
From the discovery of various archeological vestiges within the territory, including the Cer ...
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Aveiro FA
The Associação de Futebol de Aveiro ''(Aveiro Football Association)'' is one of the 22 District Football Associations that are affiliated to the Portuguese Football Federation. The AF Aveiro administers lower tier football in the district of ...
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Lusitânia Lourosa Viriato may refer to:
* Lusitânia, Portuguese name of Lusitania
Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and
a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the ...
Braga FA
The Braga Football Association (''Associação de Futebol de Braga'', abrv. ''AF Braga'') is the district governing body for the all football competitions in the Portuguese district of Braga since 1992. It is also the regulator of the clubs regis ...
Caçadores das Taipas
The Caçadores (hunters) were the elite light infantry troops of the Portuguese Army, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Units of ''Caçadores'' – with features somewhat different from the original ones – continued to exist in the Po ...
Alcains
Alcains is a Portugal, Portuguese List of parishes of Portugal, civil parish in the Municipalities of Portugal, municipality of Castelo Branco Municipality, Castelo Branco. The population in 2011 was 5,022, in an area of 36.94 km².
History
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Oliveira do Hospital
Oliveira do Hospital () is a municipality in the district of Coimbra, in the central part of continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 20,855, in an area of 234.52 km².
History
Inhabited by ancient civilizations, Oliveira do Hospita ...
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Évora FA
Évora ( , ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. It has 53,591 inhabitants (2021), in an area of 1307.08 km2. It is the historic capital of the Alentejo and serves as the seat of the Évora District.
Due to its well-preserved old t ...
Guarda FA
The Guarda Football Association (''Associação de Futebol da Guarda'', abrv. ''AF Guarda'') is the district governing body for the all football competitions in the Portuguese district of Guarda. It is also the regulator of the clubs registered in ...
Leiria FA
The Leiria Football Association ( pt, Associação de Futebol de Leiria) is one of the 22 District Football Associations that are affiliated with the Portuguese Football Federation. The AF Leiria administers lower-tier football in the district ...
Madeira FA
The Madeira Football Association (''Associação de Futebol da Madeira'', abrv. ''AF Madeira'') is the regional governing body for the all football competitions in the former Portuguese district of Funchal, including both Madeira Island and Port ...
Santarém FA Santarém may refer to:
Places
* Santarém, Pará, Brazil
* Santarém District, a district in Portugal
* Santarém, Portugal, the seat of the above district
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Santarém, Portugal
Other
* Santarém cheese, a Portuguese g ...
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Mação
Mação () is a municipality in the Santarém District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,338, in an area of 399.98 km².
The present Mayor is Vasco António Mendonça Sequeira Estrela, elected by the Social Democratic Party
Th ...
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Setúbal FA
Setúbal (, , ; cel-x-proto, Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area.
In the ti ...
Viana do Castelo FA
The Viana do Castelo Football Association (''Associação de Futebol de Viana do Castelo'', frequently shortened to ''AF Viana do Castelo'') is the district governing body for the all football competitions in the Portuguese Viana do Castelo Distri ...
Viseu FA The Viseu Football Association (''Associação de Futebol de Viseu'', abrv. ''AF Viseu'') is the district governing body for the all football competitions in the Portuguese district of Viseu. It is also the regulator of the clubs registered in the ...
Penalva do Castelo
Penalva do Castelo () is a municipality in the district Viseu in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,956, in an area of 134.34 km2.
The present mayor is Francisco Lopes de Carvalho, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is ...
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Liga Meo Azores
The Liga Meo Açores is a Portuguese non-professional league for association football clubs from Azores.
It belongs to the 5th tier of the Portuguese football league system
The Portuguese football league system consists of several leagues bound ...
The winners and the runners-up of the 4 Series were qualified to the Promotion Play-offs, where the winning team and the runner-up were promoted to 2019–20 LigaPro.